Feature request: Add videos to Cypress' cucumber reports

[jessica-jorgenson]

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Current behavior

When generating an HTML report, there is an attached image for screenshots for failing tests.

Desired behavior

When the Cypress has the config video: true, the HTML report should include the video attachment for passing or failing tests. (or just failing if this is enabled). Similar to this issue here.

Versions

• Cypress version: ^13.3.0
• Preprocessor version: ^18.0.6
• Node version: 18.18.2

Checklist

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• [x] I'm not using [email protected] (package name has changed and it is no longer the most recent version, see #689).

[badeball]

Cucumber messages, which the json and html report are products of, is a well-defined (somewhat at least) protocol. Its notion of attachments is fairly limited and attachments can only really be tied to a step. In Cypress however, a video is logically tied to a file.

So, in order to add a video, one would have to decide which step to attach it to. And this isn't as straight forward as one might think. There can be multiple failed tests and steps in a file, which of them deserves the video attachment? Bear in mind, attachments can't refer to each other, so adding it to multiple steps would blow of the report size.

[badeball]

Attachments not tied to a specific step, but a test run has been discussed in the past, ref: https://github.com/cucumber/messages/pull/102 and https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-js/issues/1394. I suspect this is the most (perhaps only) viable solution. However, I don't know if / when this will get merged. It would also take some work on https://github.com/cucumber/react-components to display test-run attachments.